Smoking Cessation

"Smoking Cessation" Issue / Symptom Connections

Below you will find various relationships to, and potential clinical treatment approaches for smoking cessation.

It is critical to appreciate that in Chinese Medicine, treatment for "smoking cessation" is rarely focused on the symptoms exclusively. Alternatively, a practitioner is looking at the factors that led to the development of "smoking cessation" - i.e. the "cause(s)".

For non-practitioners, we recommend reading treating the "cause" and not the "symptoms" for more on the overall approach and the importance of the TCM diagnostic system in formulating treatment approaches.

Related Acupuncture Protocols

When developing an acupuncture protocol a practitioner is very often focusing on the causal diagnoses in Chinese Medicine terms, not on the condition itself. To illustrate and guide developing an acupuncture treatment for someone experiencing smoking cessation, this issue is referenced in the following acupuncture protocol section:

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      Level with LU 7 and proximal to LI 5 in a depression between the tendons that make up the anatomical snuffbox.
  
      The "Extra" point is a popular point for use in smoking cessation treatments. It is located level with LU 7 and proximal to LI 5 in a depression between the tendons that make up the anatomical snuffbox. This point can be used with needlin…